Accused stepdad awaits transfer

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Accused stepdad awaits transfer
By David Allen, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Friday, March 6, 2009

Roberto DeLeon will be brought to Maryland to face charges of assaulting and murdering his 8-year-old stepson on Okinawa in April 2007.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. District Attorney’s office in Baltimore said DeLeon, indicted there Feb. 25 in U.S. District Court, made his initial appearance in Atlanta on Monday.

The indictment was sealed until last Friday because DeLeon, who has family in Panama, was out of the country. He was arrested in Atlanta upon his return.

"Mr. DeLeon had his initial appearance yesterday in Atlanta and will be brought to Maryland," Marcia Murphy said in an e-mail to Stars and Stripes Wednesday. "No timetable for that right now. He remains detained."

The indictment alleges that on April 7, 2007, DeLeon, 27, of Glen Burnie, Md., beat Jordan Peterson, causing serious injury, and that four days later he killed him in an attack in their Uruma home by causing blunt force trauma to his abdomen. At the time, DeLeon was married to Air Force Staff Sgt. Sabrina Renee DeLeon, assigned to Kadena Air Base.


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